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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Moving from a Life of Success to One of Significance with Erik Wahl

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

“There’s a necessary amount of suffering that needs to happen for new ideas or new work or change to happen. If I don’t suffer, I won’t know what joy or contentment is. If I flatline, then I won’t be able to experience it as deeply. And the cracks are where the light shines through. The cracks, weaknesses, suffering and pain are what allow for new growth. Change is actually good. It doesn’t feel good. But it actually leads us to new places…Every person of significance has experienced deep and painful setbacks or heartbreak or suffering to get to the next level to be able to get to the next space of awareness.” – Erik Wahl


Erik Wahl is an internationally recognized graffiti artist, author of the book Unthink, and speaker who redefines the term “keynote speaker”


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0:00.0

Did you catch our recent pilot episode of How They Made Each Other?

0:02.9

If you enjoyed hearing the stories of how couples met,

0:05.2

then we've got some great news. We're working on making a full season of the show,

0:08.4

but we need your help to make it happen.

0:10.1

If you want to hear more episodes of how they made each other, just text the code Love to 3377

0:15.4

777. By texting us, you'll let us know that you're interested in hearing more episodes and that'll help

0:20.1

us secure the support we need to bring you a full season of how they met each other.

0:24.2

So don't wait.

0:25.2

Texts love to 33 777 now and stay tuned for more updates on how they met each other.

0:30.6

Thanks for listening and don't worry we're not going to spam you, we promise we just need your email address so we can gauge the level of interest in the show and keep you updated on our progress.

0:38.0

There's a necessary amount of suffering that needs to happen for new ideas or new work or change to happen.

0:48.8

If I don't suffer, I won know what joy or contentment is.

0:55.8

If I flatline, then I won't be able to experience it as deeply.

0:59.5

And so the cracks are where the light shines through. The cracks and the weaknesses and the suffering

1:06.1

and the pain is what allows for new growth. So that all changes preceded by crisis, change

1:12.3

is actually good.

1:14.8

It doesn't feel good, but it actually leads us to new places,

1:18.7

and suffering and heartbreak and loss and bankruptcy I think they need to happen and for us to be

1:28.5

able to experience a heightened state of contentment and success and it was true in my life and it's true in every person of significance

1:38.4

that I value has experienced deep and painful setback or heartbreak or suffering to be able to get to the next level,

1:49.7

to be able to get to the next space of awareness.

1:52.8

I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative

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